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In this Jan. 3, 2018 photo, the Capitol is seen in Washington. Newly published research shows that the same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past six months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against an unknown number of U.S. Senate staffers, including Republicans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 file photo, the U.S. Capitol Building is illuminated during sunrise in Washington. The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro said Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 file photo, Colorado State Rep. Andy Kerr, left, speaks on the last day of the legislative session at the Capitol in Denver. According to data supplied by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks, Kerr – who is now a state senator – was one of the targets of the hacking group Fancy Bear. Kerr says thousands of his emails were posted to an obscure section of the website DCLeaks before the site fell offline in 2017. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

PARIS — The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, a cybersecurity firm said in a report Friday.

The revelation suggests the group often nicknamed Fancy Bear, whose hacking campaign scrambled the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is still busy trying to gather the emails of America's political elite.